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OP Do you recommend any dictionaries/books for someone who knows very little Yiddish but would love to learn more?
Yes. Some books.
Max Weinreich. Modern English-Yiddish / Yiddish-English Dictionary.
Alexander Harkavy. Yiddish-English-Hebrew Dictionary: A Reprint of the 1928 Expanded Second Edition.
Uriel Weinreich. College Yiddish.
Leo Rosten. The Joys of Yiddish.
—. The New Joys of Yiddish.
Michael Wex. Born to Kvetch: Yiddish Language and Culture in All of Its Moods.
Dr. Seuss and Sholem Berger. Di Kats Der Payats / The Cat In The Hat.
Some online resources:
The Mendele List: http://www2.trincoll.edu/~mendele/
der bay: http://www.derbay.org/
YIVO: http://www.yivo.org/
—. http://www.yivo.org/yiddish/yiddish.htm
The Nation Yiddish Book Center: http://www.bikher.org/
The Yiddish Radio Project: http://www.yiddishradioproject.org/
dos yidishe kol / Yiddish Voice: http://www.yiddishvoice.com/
der forvarts: http://yiddish.forward.com/oldarchive/radio/index.html
der yugntruf: http://www.yugntruf.org/ (seems to be undergoing reconstruction at the moment)
That should get you started. Plenty of linkage available at most of these sites. Yiddish is alive and well on the Web.
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
OP THank you! I am happy.
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